
Dr. Majid Asli
Research and academic fellow
Lehrgebäude 3A, Room 231
T +49 (0) 355 69 3386
F +49 (0) 355 69 2771
asli@b-tu.de
Office hours for consultation
Thursdays 10:00-12:00 and by appointment
Announcement
There are some available B.Sc. and M.Sc. thesis topics. For more information, interested students (not necessarily from BTU) may contact me.
- Lecturing
- International collaboration
- Preparation of research proposals
- Development of the international M.Sc. program “Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Technology”
- Thermal management in hybrid electric propulsion systems
- Hydrogen-fueled pressure gain combustion
- Turbomachinery
- Innovative gas turbine cycles
Since 2022
Research fellow (Habilitand) at the chair aero-engine design
Institute of Transport Technology,
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Chair of Fluid Dynamics, Technical University of Berlin
Dissertation topic: Turbine design development for pressure gain combustion engines
M.Sc., Amirkabir University of Technology
Thesis topic: Part load remedies in multistage axial flow compressors
B.Sc., Amirkabir University of Technology
Thesis topic: Sensitivity analysis of a centrifugal flow compressor using a linearization method
Other academic activities
- Reviewer for different journals and conferences such as Applied Energy, Energy, AIAA Journal, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Energies, Aerospace, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, TurboExpo2018-2023, EASN2023
- Session organizer and chair at IGTC2023, ASME TurboExpo2023 & 2024 & 2025
Membership
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), European Turbine Network (ETN), Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society (AFMS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Selected Publications:
▪ M. Asli, P. König, D. Sharma, E. Pontika, J. Huete, K.R. Konda, A. Mathiazhagan, T. Xie, K. Höschler, P. Laskaridis, "Thermal management challenges in hybrid-electric propulsion aircraft", Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 144, 100967, January 2024.
▪ D. Kim, M. Asli, and K. Höschler, “On the Potentials of the Integration of Pressure Gain Combustion with a Hybrid Electric Propulsion System,” Aerospace, vol. 10, no. 8, p. 710, Aug. 2023.
▪ M. Asli, P. Stathopoulos “An optimization methodology for turbines driven by pulsed detonation combustors”, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, November 2022; 144(11): 111004.
▪ R. Klopsch, N. Garan, M. Bohon, E. Bach, M. Asli, and P. Stathopoulos “2D Euler modeling of rotating detonation combustion in preparation for turbomachinery matching”, in AIAA 2022-0836. AIAA SCITECH Forum, 2022.
▪ M. Asli, N. Garan, N. Neumann, P. Stathopoulos “A robust one-dimensional approach for the performance evaluation of turbines driven by pulsed detonation combustion”, Journal of Energy Conversion and Management, 2021,248,114784.
▪ N. Neumann, M. Asli, N. Garan, D. Peitsch, P. Stathopoulos “A fast approach for unsteady compressor performance simulation under boundary condition caused by pressure gain combustion”, Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering, (2021),117223.
▪ M. Asli, P. Stathopoulos, C. O. Paschereit, “Aerodynamic investigation of guide vane configurations downstream a rotating detonation combustor”, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2021, 143(6): 061011.
▪ M. Asli, P. Stathopoulos, C. O. Paschereit, “Effect of Blade Setting Angle on Damping Role of Turbine Guide Vanes Downstream an RDC” in International Gas Turbine Society (IGTC2019) Tokyo, Japan, 2019.
▪ M. Asli, A. M. Tousi, “Performance analysis of axial flow compressor and part load consideration in a gas turbine application”, Journal of Thermal Science & Technology, Vol. 8 No.3, pp. 476-487.
* Shahbaz Anis Sholapure, M.Sc. thesis "Numerical analysis of a rotary wave engine", (from TU Berlin, 2024)
* Mosaab Mhgoub, M.Sc. thesis "Turbine optimization for H2 driven rotating detonation combustion," (from TU Berlin, 2024).
* Dongsuk Kim, M.Sc. thesis "On the potentials of pressure gain combustion engines in hybrid electric propulsion aviation," (from TU Berlin, 2023).
* Hussein Nassar, M.Sc. thesis, "On the damping role of a bumpy leading-edge turbine guide vane downstream a rotating detonation combustor," (from TU Berlin).
* Mahdi Shabani, M.Sc. thesis, "Numerical study of a plenum in a PDC-turbine configuration," (from TU Berlin,2022-2023).
*Jeffrey Hänsel, Student project, "Assessing the Battery Cooling Technologies for Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Aircraft" (2023).
* Harikrishnan Radhakrishnam, HiWi, assisting with the teaching activities (2024).
* Mahmoud Nazirizad, HiWi, assisting with the teaching activities (2024).
* Krishna Rana, HiWi, assisting with the teaching activities (2023).
* Siddharth Patkar, Intern, "Effect of leading-edge protuberances on a transonic axial compressor performance" (2022).